Hurricane Katrina ... my thoughts

These are my thoughts, typed late on a Sunday evening, about Hurricaine Katrina disaster:

• I grew up with a girl named Katrina Strehl. She was a red-head who liked horses. I bet she feels weird now.
• The people were warned to get out and the problem was likely exacerbated by people who were able to do so not following those orders.
• I have never been to New Orleans and now I sorta kinda wish I had visited there before this happened.
• The system of levys and dikes in the Netherlands has been designed to withstand the worst storm which could hypothetically occur in the next 10,000 years. I was listening to NPR the other day and a Dutch safety director was talking about the Dutch dikes. When asked about the high cost of such precautions he simply said, "that is peanuts compared to the damage you have now." Simply put, and true.
• I think that is a slap in the face of other countries that we did not accept their help -- I hate it when people won't accept my help, and I'm sure other countries feel the same way. I bet the starving children down there don't care if their meal comes from Uncle Sam or Uncle Fidel.
• Whenever I hear that the babies are in need of formula it reinforces my belief that somehow, formula companies to not want babies to be breastfed and that it is some kind of conspiracy that Americans are pushed to buy formula and admit defeat.
  
• I don't know how I would feel if this happened to my family, but I can't image trying to corral my kids in the Superdome while Sandy was kicking my ass for not evacuating us.
• It reinforces my belief that I would like to own a boat docked in a secluded area on Lake Superior. The ability to row, sail, or motor out to the middle of Lake Superior in case of National Emergency would be an awesome thing. Access to fresh water, fish, etc. . .all I would need is a solar powered radar system to avoid lake boats at night, a water purifier, a supply of dried food to last our family a few weeks, and a couple other items I don't care to list because I haven't thought of them.
  
• I think Kanye West was perfectly within his right to say what he did about how black and white people are viewed in the media. It was true. The looters they show are almost always black. Who wants to donate when the media is showing looters stealing?
• And on that note, if I were in the same sitiation I would be looting, too. Food, clothes, diapers, anything my family needed and I was unable to obtain legally or readily.
  
• I think this should spark a renewed call to get the National Guard the hell out of Iraq so that they can guard the nation.
• I have not donated yet.